Brace yourselves, data ahead!
Cost of renting professionals:
Considering a rigorous sex life from age 20-50 with sex twice a week when aged 20 and increasing by 3% every year till 27 and decreasing by 5% every year after that, total sessions are 2608. Considering the average cost of a professional as $70 and this keeps on increasing with an inflation rate of 3%, total cost of renting in the lifetime is $269,445. (After 50 you are not gonna get sex from your wife but can still keep spending on professionals until you like, so not including that cost here + do you think a wife is gonna be as good as a professional in bed?)
Now, cost of a marriage:Average cost of the ceremony itself is $35,329 (source). Now, the cost of having a wife varies based on how much you spend on her for weekly dinners/gifts/mortgage for bigger house/travel expenses of hers that you end up paying. Let's assume it to be $100 a week + $500 splurge twice a year (with 3% increase every year due to inflation) for 15 years of married life. So, assuming marriage at 25 and divorce at 40 you would have spent $124,973. As inevitably, you would be giving up half your money to her and then child support. Child support that men pay on average is $5,450 /annually (source). So let's assume you pay for 10 years of child support, that's $54,500. Now, what about after 40? Professionals again? So, for the next 10 years you pay another $82,104 for professionals.
So, in total the amount is $296,906 + half of whatever you would own at the time she decides to leave.
TL;DR: Don't get married!
EDIT : Updated cost of keeping a wife from $50 a week to $100.
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